Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is a very small town located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 2,056 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is the 48th largest community in North Dakota.
Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.34% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan who work in teaching (16.58%), management occupations (15.18%), and office and administrative support (9.95%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Fort Totten - Minnewaukan has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fort Totten - Minnewaukan a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Fort Totten - Minnewaukan spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.66 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Fort Totten - Minnewaukan rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.81% of adults 25 and older in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan in 2022 was $21,412, which is low income relative to North Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,648 for a family of four. However, Fort Totten - Minnewaukan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Totten - Minnewaukan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Totten - Minnewaukan residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan include Norwegian, German, Swedish, English, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 9 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.5%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 78.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 8.7% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 44.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.7%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.7% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (8.1%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (78.3%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report German roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (2.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (70.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (20.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.